Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman of Sinovation Ventures and CEO of 01.AI. Sinovation Ventures, managing US$3 billion dual currency investment funds, is a leading venture capital firm focusing on developing the next-generation deep techcompanies. With a unique “VC+AI” model, Dr. Lee also leads the venture-buildingefforts of seven AI startups including the latest 01.AI, a new company capturing theLLM-driven AI 2.0 opportunity. Before founding Sinovation, Dr. Lee was the President of Google China, and a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Dr. Lee received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Columbia University, a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, and Honorary Doctorate Degrees from both Carnegie Mellon and the City University of Hong Kong. He co-chaired the Artificial Intelligence Council for the World Economic Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and is highly recognized as “TIME100 AI” Top 25 AI Leaders in the World, 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine in 2013, WIRED 25 Icons, and followed by over 50 million audiences on social media.

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In the field of artificial intelligence, Dr. Lee built one of the first game-playing programs to defeat a world champion (1988, Othello), as well as the world’s first large-vocabulary, speaker- independent continuous speech recognition system. Dr. Lee founded Microsoft Research China, later renamed Microsoft Research Asia, which was named the hottest research lab by MIT Technology Review. While with Apple, Dr.Lee led AI projects in speech and natural language, which have been featured on Good Morning America on ABC Television and the front page of the Wall Street Journal. He has authored 10 U.S. patents and more than 100 journal and conference papers. Altogether, Dr. Lee has been in artificial intelligence research, development, and investment for more than 30 years. His New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (aisuperpowers.com) discusses US-China co-leadership in the age of AI as well as the greater societal impacts brought upon by the AI technology revolution. His 2021 co-authored book AI 2041 (ai2041.com) predicts how artificial intelligence will change our world in the next twenty years horizon.

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Mr. Shan Weijian is the the executive chairman and co-founder of PAG – an Asia-based and focused private equity firm with more than USD50 billion in capital under management.

Prior to PAG, he was co-managing partner of the private equity firm Newbridge Capital (now known as TPG Asia) and a partner of TPG for 12 years.

Shan was a managing director of JP Morgan, where he was concurrently the chief representative for China for 5 years. He was an assistant professor at the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania for 6 years. He also worked at the World Bank in 1987.Shan is a Trustee of the British Museum. He is also a member of the International Advisory Council of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, and an independent director of Alibaba Group.

Dr. Qi Xiaoning is the Vice President of Alibaba Group. He previously held senior management and technical roles at companies like Intel, where he worked on integrated circuit devices, microprocessor design, and platform electrical design for semiconductor systems. He also served as Chairman and President of the Chinese American Semiconductor Professional Association (USA).

Currently, Dr. Qi is a member of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Council and the CEO Council of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) and serves on the board of the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC). He has published over 50 technical papers, authored one book and a book chapter, delivered more than two dozen invited talks, and holds two U.S. patents. He is a globally recognized expert in the semiconductor and AI fields, specializing in open-source chip architectures such as RISC-V.

Dr. Qi earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Eugene Tang has been a business journalist since 1994 and has 16 years of experience in China, including 10 years of building and managing a bilingual news operation as editor and Bloomberg's China Bureau Chief.

Before joining the Post, Eugene was product director of institutional news and Factiva products at Dow Jones/Wall St Journal. As Managing Editor, he is responsible for coverage of markets, banking and finance, property and industries.

Tammy Tam is the South China Morning Post’s Editor-in-Chief and is responsible for the overall editorial direction, strategic development and leading the Post’s newsroom operations for both its print and digital platforms.

Tammy is the Chairperson of the Hong Kong News Executives’ Association, and Vice-Chairwoman of the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong. She was a board member of the Media Communications Training Board, the Hong Kong Vocational Training Council, which is dedicated to training talents in the media industry, from 2017 to 2023. Prior to joining the Post, Tammy spent 20 years in the television industry in leadership roles managing editorial teams and bureaus and corporate development strategies.

Yonden Lhatoo is Managing Editor, Content at the South China Morning Post. He was a TV news anchor and editor for nearly two decades before he joined the Post as a senior editor in 2015. He began his journalism career as a newspaper reporter covering Hong Kong's transition from British colonial rule to Chinese sovereignty, and is now a veteran newshand who specialises in Hong Kong and Greater China affairs. Apart from his editorial duties, which cover news content and quality control at the Post, he regularly moderates forums and seminars on current affairs. He has publicly written, spoken and taught about local, regional and global issues for decades, but is still trying to figure it all out.